(recap)
I felt a shiver run down my spine at the thought. I silently thanked the gods Obasan wasn't here. When I glanced back at Jiji, he was looking at me with a knowing smile, as if he could read my thoughts.
Then, with a serious face, he said, "Go and bring me a chair. I'm going to explain exactly what you did wrong."
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Chapter 4: Itto Heizo POV
After I brought the chair, we sat in the backyard. Jiji was seated, while I sat cross-legged on the ground in front of him, ready to absorb everything he was about to say like a sponge.
"Now, boy, tell me what you thought you were playing around with," Jiji asked, his eyes locked onto mine.
"It's chakra, isn't it?" I replied.
"You're only partially right. The power inside you is actually yang chakra. Before I explain what that means, do you know how many elements of chakra there are?"
"Yes. There are five main types: water, air, fire, earth, and lightning."
"Correct, but there are two additional types of chakra that don't fall under those elements—yin and yang chakra. Yin relates to spiritual energy, while yang is tied to physical energy. What you had inside you, what everyone has inside their body, is yang chakra.
Yin, on the other hand, is less noticeable. It's the one which is more abstract of the two, it refers to mental capacity or spiritual presence.
The chakra people usually use is a combination of both yin and yang, balanced perfectly to create normal chakra."
"Does that mean everyone who has chakra needs to actively balance their yang and yin chakras to produce it?"
"Ah, that's where your unique situation comes in. Most people aren't even aware of the process they naturally combine spiritual energy and physical energy to get normal chakra. The total amount of chakra someone can create is based on their capacity to combine the two. To produce yin or yang chakra they need to differentiate between spiritual and physical energy combining and then sperate them before actively learning how and converting those individual energy to their respective chakra's that's why you don't see many people who specifically specialize in them, cause its such a long and hard to learn process "
"Really?"
"Yes. And that's also why people with an abundance of one type of chakra rely more on techniques that use that energy.
For example, we Nara are naturally rich in spiritual energy so it's easier for us to produce and use yin chakra, so we use jutsu like Shadow Manipulation, which depends heavily on it. On the other hand, the Akimichi, who are more physically-attuned are yang-abundant so they use techniques based on it."
"So… does that mean our clan's overall chakra capacity is lower than others as we don't have much physical energy?"
"Not quite. It just means we have a higher reserve of yin chakra, but our yang chakra runs out faster, which can limit the amount of normal chakra we produce. This leaves us with an excess of yin when we run low on yang.
That's why our ancestors made a brilliant decision—they embraced our strength in yin chakra, creating jutsu that worked primarily with it. It's the opposite for the Akimichi. Does that make sense?"
"Yeah, I think so. But how does all of this affect me?"
"You're special because you, boy, what you were doing is subconsciously converting your physical energy to yang chakra and trying to use it on your hand, to use yang chakra like that is what would mean to use a technique, basically you would have blasted off your hand off if not for your akimichi genes boy."
"Normally, when children join the Academy, the teachers help the children unlock chakra by introducing their own chakra into the student's body to which their own body will react to and start the process which This triggers a passive chakra creation process in the children's body.
Throughout the Academy, based on your physical and mental capacity, a rough estimate of your chakra reserves is made. Most ninjas don't sense their physical and spiritual chakras separately until they become chunin and then converting those to yang or yin chakra is something many ninjas don't even bother to do, unless they're part of a clan that uses chakra-specific jutsu.
But because you're already creating yang chakra subconsciously from physical energy , you'll have to backtrack and stop yang chakra creation sense physical-energy and sense spiritual energy and then combine them both to create normal chakra actively to use it."
"...Say what?"
"Exactly. Thanks to your awareness and brilliance, you've managed to make a process that's passive for others into something you'll need to manage actively!! ."
"?....NOOO!!! "